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For those who love to see and use their weather data embedded in other applications, Visual Crossing Weather extensions bring that experience directly into some of your favorite environments. Whether you are into content management, ecommerce, or just placing a weather widget on your own website, Visual Crossing’s ever-growing library of weather extensions will help …
One of the most closely watched consequence of the war in Ukraine is the increased cost of winter heating for the winter of 2022-2023. As of this writing in October 2022, the price of natural gas in Europe has increased more than 600% over last year. While Europe was heavily dependent on Russian gas ahead …
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We have recently released our new Winter Energy Calculator that uses the weather data for any chosen location to calculate how much energy you will use. By combining the calculated usage with historical energy prices, we then calculate how your bill will change based both on how cold the winter is and how energy prices …
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Although Google disabled their weather API years ago (except on their Android platform), many users and developers continue to struggle to find a good weather API option that is both free for basic and personal use cases and has the power of a full 15-day forecast and rich history API that can pull from decades …
The Visual Crossing Weather Data platform is designed to provide global weather data coverage for both historical weather data and weather forecast information. We want to offer the data in as many languages and locales as possible to help users throughout the world use the data. To facilitate this, we offer our language descriptors information …
The Visual Crossing Weather API has an option to return a icon name for each row of weather data. This icon field provides a high level summary of the weather conditions for that time period and is designed to present a simple view of the weather. You can use these icon names to display visually …
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The Timeline Weather API includes the ability to include storm reports and other significant weather and environmental events that have occurred near to a place of interest. These events can include earthquakes, hail, tornado and wind damage. When found, events are are included in the daily results of the Weather API. What kind of reports …
NOTE This Article refers to the legacy query interface. if you are already logged in , you can access the legacy page by clicking the link to the ‘legacy version’ as shown in the screenshot below Overview This article describes how to create annual, monthly and daily climate summaries for any location in the world …
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When you create a simple historical summary, the weather variables are summarized by their default aggregation method for all time periods in question. For example, the maximum temperature is the maximum temperature for all the selected time intervals. Precipitation is the mean across the same time time intervals. In many cases, we don’t want the …
The Weather API includes a unitGroup parameter that allows you to specify the units that will be used when returning weather data. This article describes the units within each group. The API uses four group ids to indicate the units that will be used – us, metric, uk and base. us – United States Weather …